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Chief economist update: A prelude to an RBA cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... growth averaged 2.6% in 2014, the weighted median inflation measure and wages growth both averaged 2.6%. The unemployment rate though was running at around 6%. 'Twas the same when the RBA held interest rates unchanged at 2% between May 2015 and April ...

Chief economist update: Rush hour is over for the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... decline since the third quarter of 2015. Still, as Carney reasoned, the country's robust labour market - the unemployment rate remained at a 42-year low of 4.2% in the three months to March - and the lead from the CIPS Survey where both the manufacturing ...

Chief economist update: Fed will go hiking in June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
... activity had been rising at a moderate rate. Job gains had been strong, on average, in recent months, and the unemployment rate had stayed low." True that. The US unemployment rate was clocked at 3.9% in April. This is the lowest jobless rate since an ...

Chief economist update: Forget asking for a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
... of the jobs created (24.4K) in the month of March. How good is that! Not so fast. The bears have it too. The unemployment rate - the stat the RBA looks at - rose from 5.5% in March to 5.6% in April (the highest rate of joblessness since July last year) ...

Chief economist update: New RBNZ Governor maintains old policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
... import price inflation, and subdued wage pressures." Certainly, New Zealand's labour market is "robust". The unemployment rate continued to fell for the fifth straight quarter to 4.4% in the March 2018 quarter - the lowest level since December 2008 ...

Chief economist update: BOE fails market expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
... This is the message from the just-released US CPI report for April. Despite the continued improvement in the US unemployment rate - down to 3.9% in April - and the continuing ascent in crude oil prices, headline CPI inflation only managed a small increase ...

Chief economist update: We're headed for surplus (if assumptions hold)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
... the "expected" improvement in the domestic labour market based on what's currently happening in the US (3.9% unemployment rate and still tame wages growth). The Budget predicts the wage price index - up 2.1% in the December quarter - to grow by 2.25% ...

Chief economist update: Australian workers, don't expect a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... growth stat misses market expectations. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) update shows that while the unemployment rate remained at 5.5% in March - in line with expectations and unchanged from the January and February - total monthly employment ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... previous quarter, more recent data indicate that the economy remains resilient to Brexit uncertainty. The country's unemployment rate stood at a 42-month low of 4.3% in January; March consumer confidence improved to its best level since May 2017; and ...

Chief economist update: Caught in the crossfire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... full-time employment - up 64,900 in February - that offset the 47,400 drop in part-time jobs. And although the unemployment rate ticked up to 5.6% in February from 5.5% in the previous month, this was a result of the increase in the participation rate ...